Here is a witty look back on what it was like to grow up as a baby boomer. It might explain why we are a generation that will not go silently into retirement but instead choose to be an active life-participant until the day they close the lids on our coffins. It also helps to explain the reasoning behind how our children were raised. Read more »
NEVER SAY NEVER - Ten years ago, I moved to a very rural northern town. Isolated from friends and family, my children worried about me, especially driving at night and so they gave me a cell phone for Christmas. I never wanted a cell phone, and I definitely wasn’t going to get hooked on one, After all, I had done without one for my first 50 plus years so why would I need one now? Boy was I off base on that one! My first “mobile” phone was a one piece, black “Nokia” brand phone - it didn’t flip open, had no “sliding feature”, it didn’t offer texting, didn’t have the Internet, it had no camera, no fancy downloadable ring tones – it was just a newer, smaller, portable version of the simple old ma bell phone I grew up with. I didn’t have the heart to tell my children that service was iffy at best this far north making reception pour even on clear days; but, I used the rationale that it would be handy to have in case of EMERGENCIES. So, I threw it in my purse along with the other non-essentials I carry and tried to forget about it. However, like most rural areas, time eventually catches up up with us and signal towers began popping up among the trees and along our highways. My phone began to ring on occasion and the more I talked on it, the more I grew addicted to this wireless “demon” and soon we became one! It became a semi-permanent attachment to my ear and it was never far from reach – I learned to drive, shop and walk one-handed! I was content and all was right with the world. But my coming of age in this techno-phase didn’t end there. The cell phone industry created new and better, faster, more hi-tech phones that my children felt necessary to bestow upon me. Alas, I was left in the wireless dust! I was lucky to be able to program in the names and phone numbers of friends and family, but all of a sudden there were more options on my phone: display options, screen saver choices, ring tones, text messaging, etc. - all too overwhelming for a novice such as me. Read more »
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